Struggling with Big Emotions?​

You find yourself navigating big emotions, perhaps you’ve been told that emotions can’t be trusted. So you find ways to minimize and cope with your feelings.

Some of the coping behaviours may look like

  • Over-relying on food, alcohol and other substances to regulate your emotions
  • Engaging in impulsive behaviours like spending a lot of money, risky sexual behaviour, gambling, binge eating etc.
  • Disconnecting from the world (mindlessly scrolling on your phone, feeling numb, dissociating, difficulty figuring out what you want etc.) when in the thick of big emotions
  • Excessive agitation
  • Easily tearful
  • Overworking and constantly staying busy
  • Zoned out and unable to get things done

Or feelings such as

  • Feeling out of control and being overwhelmed
  • Intense anger, anxiety, sadness, shame, guilt
  • Big swings in emotions
  • Indecisiveness
  • Unsure of yourself

We will explore your stressors and how the stress in your life causes difficulty with coping.

Incorporate practical strategies for managing big emotions

Find ways to meet your emotional needs to align with your sense of who you are

Understand why your current coping mechanisms help and how they may interfere with living your best life

Understand your underlying emotional needs

You don't have to do this alone

By gently exploring the underlying reasons, you will learn to better take care of yourself and respond to your needs in healthy ways.

Together, we create support structures to help you through life’s inevitable stressful phases and create a life of meaning and peace.